History

Colonialism, Camp and Canada: Reflections on Britain’s complex imperial legacy

“The episodes of oppression against indigenous peoples and against French settlers have become conveniently discarded in favour of a glorifying narrative of Canada’s history. The dark shadows of a colonial past have been worryingly swept under the rug, thrown out to the dustbin of history.”

The Greatest Disappointment? How Michael Gracey’s film re-writes the past.

 Yet again, Hollywood presents the struggles of the ‘other’ through the lens of a white, privileged male.